What brands are you completely loyal to?

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Me:

Ecover multi-purpose cleaner in a spray bottle thingy (for cleaning kitchen surfaces and table) - never use anything else.

Yorkshire Tea.

Persil washing powder.

Lurpak butter.

Anything else I will experiment with, but those are my constants.

Coca Cola
Flora

Anything else I'm easy.

there is nothing that I wont change

Diet Coke
Heinz ketchup and salad cream
Daddies brown sauce
Did buy Heinz beans, but dh prefers Branston!
dd likes Aquafresh toothpaste, we use Colgate
Ariel liquid
Fairy liquid.

What a mad thread! But strangely compelling. Am sure it'll be read by some poor marketing sod trying to figure out the "mumsnet demographic"...

I like to think I'm not a brand-y type but thinking about it there are some brands I'm slavishly quite loyal to. I just figure if there's something I like, that works, that suits me and my crazy sensitive skin then why try and find something else [lazy emoticon].

Clothes:
converse
birkenstocks
Du Pareil Au Meme clothes for my baby son (I just love their stuff but can only get it when I visit family back in Ireland).

Home/laundry:
Ecover non-bio, fabric softener, handsoap and multipurpose cleaner (I heart ecover and have been using these products since about 1997!)
bio-D nappy powder
bumgenius reusable nappies.

Food/drink:
Barrys tea (when I can get it, cafe direct if not)
weetabix
Flahavans oats
Kelloggs cornflakes (I'm particular about cereal )
Total greek yogurt.

Toiletries:
Aveeno face moisturiser
Clinique happy or happy heart perfume
Origins hand cream
Aveda hang straight and be curly (depending on whether I want to fight my curly hair or embrace it )
mitchum deodorant.

Cars: Toyota or VW (we have a golf but hire a prius whenever we can on holidays!)

Computery stuff: Apple (for both macbook and iphone), Google, wordpress.

lurpak (who knew??)
de cecco pasta
vaseline lip balm
aussie shampoo
longley farm cottage cheese (never watery)
seabrook crinkle cut original
oust plug-in air freshener (but i can never find it in the UK)

otherwise I mostly go own brand apart from tin toms (even waitrose's are horrid) but i don't remember what I buy instead

Oh and Maldon sea salt. Bloody love the stuff.

Tunnocks caramel bars
Cadbury Curly Wurly
Heinz ketchup
Branston beans
Marmite
Yorkshire tea
Sure deodorant
Frizz-ease serum
Zovirax
Body Shop Baby buriti baby bath lotion (makes the baby smell like a newborn! Amazing!
T gel shampoo
Sensodyne
Whiskas cat food
Quorn pieces and mince (not veggie but so much nicer and easier)
Linda McCartney country pies (as above)

oh yes longley farm milk products

its just down the road from my house often walk past the cows

their cream is the best ever and i will always get that over any other cream now... its divine
(it probably has far more fat than supermarket though)

Persil

Comfort

Ty-Phoo tea bags

Helmanns mayo

Shirgar welsh butter

Branston beans

First Direct bank

Dove shower lotion/body lotion & deodarant

Colgate

Anything else is fair game in our house.

Lurpak
Tropicana
coca-cola
Gordons Gin
Pampers
Johnsons wipes
Start-rite shoes for DCs
BBC for news
Apple
Dettol spray for surfaces

cadbury twirl
total greek yoghurt
sensodyne dental floss

miele appliances.

I just bought a vacuum cleaner this weekend after DH wasted $300 on an electrosux. After one year I had super glued and duct taped the thing together. The motor went so I sent DH in to get a full refund. I have spent $550 on a miele and I am sure I hope to be still be using the thing when I retire.

When the dishwasher died I insisted on the miele and got my way. I now don't have to rinse dishes before they go in, pots and pans come out properly clean. It was double the price but worth every penny.

Now only the washing machine to go... DH insisted on the bosch as it was only $600 in the sale and we don't know how long we are going to live out here for. The compromise was that it was still 'Made in Germany'.

I LOOOOOVE this thread. 2 reasons:

1. The subtle jockeying for position with brands: 'Nescafe? Oh only because anything else makes me ill'; 'Instant? Pah. Only Illy from the freezer dahling...', 'FREEZER?! - you mean you don't grow your own beans in reindeer dung?'

1. The Lurpak Effect. I guarantee you, next month, they will be marketing it as Official Mumsnet Butter.

But I'm not playing. It would give far too much away and like to be paid even nominally for free marketing info

Bacardi
Diet Coca Cola (to go with above!)

I will compromise on most things but not my Friday night drink!

Apple
Addidas
Heinz beans
Gordons
Janome
BBC

Dove deodorant
Mentadent P toothpaste
was Lillets - but recently switched to a Mooncup
Ecover washing liquid (everything else STINKS)and washing up liquid
De Cecco pasta
Guardian newspaper

Yorkshire Tea
Skoda cars
DM boots
Specsavers (eye test picked up a sight-threatening condition and got me a referal straight away. Will not go to any other optician or any other branch now)
Marmite
Pearl Izumi and Gore (sports wear)
Meltus cough mixture
Longley Farm yoghurts
Ribena
Orange mobiles (but ia the only network that works here)
Boden for Tshirts/tops - long enough and wash well.
Origins skin care when funds allow.

Tennants Extra
Lambrini
JLS Durex condoms

Ecover washing up liquid, Fairy non-bio, Green and Blacks drinking chocolate - children do not recognise anything else as drinking chocolate

Lurpak

Twinings lady grey loose tea (love the flowers in it!)

First Direct (if MN did a bank....)

IAM's cat food

Prince Charles' sausage

Fairy non bio
Fairy washing up liquid
Marmite
Nesquik
Ainsley cous cous
Onken strawberry yoghurt

If any brand managers are reading the whole thread and totting it all up...

own brand tinned toms
own brand baked beans
own brand/ cheapest bread
own brand/ offers loo roll
own brand/ cheapest marg, cheese

MyBoysHaveDogNames sound brand choices all round, well done. Since I got my coil I no longer have the need for the majority of Durex's products, but I wouldn't go trust anyone else for lube

oops, strike the word go

Branston's baked beans (much nicer than Heinz!)
Marmite
Flash cleaning spray
Lindt chocolate

Everything else is whatever's on offer!